ITTI Ongoing Maintenance and Support Preliminary Report May 1995 This report gives a short description of the work which is being carried out by those seven ITTI projects which were successful in receiving additional funding from UCISA/JISC. The vast majority of revised products will be available by December `95. Your are welcome to get in touch with the stated project contacts or myself if you have an interest in any specific item. Brian Shields National Co-ordinator ITTI dbs@st-andrews.ac.uk X-Windows Project Jean Ritchie and John Wexler University of Edinburgh jean.ritchie@ed.ac.uk J.Wexler@ed.ac.uk The workbooks on which the Xwindows System User Course , the Xwindows System Managers Course and the Motif Program Course are based have proved suitable for self - paced study purposes. These workbooks will be modified to: Reflect network developments include more concepts Reflect developments in X-terminal hardware Include improved examples Cover the use of X with PC's and Apple Mac's A WWW page will be produced to give an overview of the various products and explain how they can be obtained electronically as Framemaker 4 or Postscript files. Availability October `95 UNIX Help Project Keith Farvis (Admin) Univ of Edinburgh Keith.Farvis@ed.ac.uk Gavin Inglis (Technical) Gavin.Inglis@ed.ac.uk The UNIX Help Product has been widely used in the UK and abroad and will be updated and improved, in response to the feedback received over the past year, as follows:- Product brought up to date with UNIX System V Release 4 Facilitate local customization Added sections on emacs, usenet News and others Improved formatting and layout style. The product will continue to be run on the WWW. Availability Style and HTML conformance August `95 All other changes December`95 Networking for Technical Staff John Buckett Univ of Exeter J.Buckett@exeter.ac.uk Two of the project's networking courses: Data Communications and Novell Netware will be updated. The Data Communications Course is being updated by reducing the coverage of X25 and coloured books networking and adding new sections on topics such as TCP/IP, Novell, PC Ethernet drivers and some PC network applications. The Novell course is undergoing more extensive changes to take account of increasing use of Netware Version 4 in the academic community. It is envisaged that the new course will appear in two forms: One will be a Netware version 4 conversion course for those staff with a working knowledge of earlier versions of Novell Netware. The second will be a complete Netware Version 4 course designed for technical staff who have no previous knowledge of Novell Netware. The course notes from all these courses will be made available via the WWW. Availability Data Communications September `95 Novell Netware December `95 Network Training Materials Jill Foster Univ of Newcastle Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk Margaret Isaacs Univ of Glasgow mmi@dcs.gla.ac.uk The Network Training Materials project is currently producing a WWW- based self-teaching package which builds on the material currently in the Network Training Pack. This package will enable users to teach themselves how to use the Internet. The funding will enable the project to employ specialized staff to enhance this package with additional interactivity and to assist with the interface design. It is intended to produce both a stand-alone version on disk or CD-ROM and a networked version available via the WWW. Availability Core Module by September '95 Hypermedia for the Humanities Marilyn Deegan Oxford Univ. marilyn@vax.ox.ac.uk The book, Hypermedia in the Humanities has had a very large take up both within and outwith the Humanities community; it will be republished with title and content to reflect its wider applicability. Extensive revision of the section on Authoring Systems will be carried out as will a revision of the introductory definitions to be less focused on the Humanities. The entire book will be edited in the light of reviews which have been received. It is planned to have the book available in paper form and via the WWW. Availability December `95 On Going Support and Development for Authoring Packages David Baty Univ. of Dundee J.D.Baty@dundee.ac.uk The project aims to provide:- Information support for CBL developers through the regular updating of the Using Hypertext and Multimedia product. This product is essentially a hypertext database of educational technology information designed for use by beginners and current developers. Whilst the content is not Guide specific it includes several useful ``Guide tips'' Ongoing development of the new Guide Toolkit. This is a package which allows CBL material to be developed quickly and efficiently as well as providing a simple method for CBL production A workbook/disk will be produced which illustrates how to accomplish the integration of Windows programs with Guide using Visual Basic. Information on all the project's products will be made available via the WWW. It is also the intention to make as many of the products as is feasible available via the WWW. Availability Updates from October `95 onwards Intro. to Statistics using MINITAB Sally McClean Ulster SI.Mcclean@ulst.ac.uk The revised product will consist of a computer based tutorial and associated user documentation. It will cover the use of MINITAB for Windows features in the production of graphical representations of data ( e.g. pie chart, bar chart and scattergram; generation of summary measures of location and spread; basic tabulation and cross tabulation of data and measurements of association. A non-mathematical style of treatment of related theoretical considerations, including an introduction of data types, statistical variables and measurement scales. 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